CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0399

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2002-10-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-10-10
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 through 1.13.25, and possibly later versions, allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a (1) "/.." or (2) "./.." string, which removes the leading slash but leaves the "..", a variant of CVE-2001-1267.

Affected configurations

• gnu tar 1.13.25

References